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Companies moving to hybrid IT often face a challenge to bridge legacy infrastructure with new virtualization and cloud technologies. Rocana One brings together IT monitoring and big data technologies to meet this challenge.

A suite of legacy modernization technologies focused on migration to Microsoft .NET Framework technologies and first developed by Fujitsu Computer Systems Corp. are now available through a new company called Alchemy Solutions Inc.

Longtime mainframe integration firm Attachmate Corp. this week released an update to its Verastream Host Integrator to greatly simplify the complexity of legacy-to-SOA integration, as well as lower the time, cost and risk of such projects.

In the wake of HP's $13.9 billion buyout of EDS, we're learning a bit more about how HP intends to expand SOA outsourcing options, especially for helping enterprise SOAize their legacy data, applications and pointtopoint integration architectures.

Micro Focus has upgraded a popular legacy modernization product to bring mainframe assets to SOA without recoding SOA Express 8.0 adds support for direct deployment into IBM's CICS for both .NET and J2EE environments.

BEA Systems launched several new legacy modernization offerings this month, with an eye toward making is quicker and simpler to bring transaction-based apps into an SOA. IDN talks with a BEA exec about the latest Tuxedo products.

Last month uXcomm Inc. released its Service-Oriented Management Architecture (SOMA) to unify SOA management across mobile devices, enterprise apps and legacy resources. SOMA is for device makers, ISVs and enterprise architects to easily add management features into any server, network element, appliance or storage device. One key to SOMA's ability is uXcomm's Management Service Bus, a management-tuned variation on ESB.

A new report from Financial Insights claims that while IT spending is still dominated by concerns over regulatory compliance, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, a change in coming. Over the next two years there will be a shift toward migrating legacy architectures to SOA, and shoring up their data - through management and security projects.

More than 90% of financial CIOs are worried that a lack of in-depth visiblity and understanding of their legacy assets -- and how to plug them into today's technologies is hurting their business. High costs, uncertain compliance, and lengthy time-to-deployments are all pain points, a recent survey says. Learn what 60 top global financial managers are doing about their concerns, and how their efforts will affect architecture and development projects.

California Java researchers are exploring how "rapid prototyping" and "un-refactoring" techniques could help J2EE devs better J2EE updates and integrations. This project, winner of an Eclipse Innovation Award, brings loosely-coupled techniques to tight-coupled J2EE silos - with astonishing results. Take a tour of the "Fluid Architecture" project with lead, William Griswold, Ph.D, professor at University of California - San Diego.

Web services are presenting Java and NET developers new easy-to-learn opportunities to access and integrate with valuable legacy assets, according to a growing number of enterprise apps professionals. See why non-programmatic approaches, including even screen scraping could boost career opps for Java and .NET enterprise devs.